Gruber to chat todayFormer Kansas University distance runner and current Olympian Charlie Gruber will participate in an online chat at 3 p.m. today at KUsports.com.Gruber has qualified for the 1,500-meter run at the Athens Summer Olympics. Opening ceremonies will be a week from today, with ...

Gruber to chat FridayFormer Kansas University distance runner and current Olympian Charlie Gruber will participate in an online chat on KUsports.com at 3 p.m. Friday.Gruber has qualified for the 1,500-meter run at the Athens Summer Olympics. Opening ceremonies will be Aug. 13. Gruber won't run ...

Kansas University home run record-holder Travis Metcalf is off to a solid professional start.After 17 games playing third base for the Spokane (Wash.) Indians, a short-season Class A farm team of the Texas Rangers, Metcalf was hitting .284 with seven doubles, a triple and two home runs. His ...

Less than a mile east of Newburgh-Beacon bridge just off Interstate 84 in Fishkill, N.Y., sits Dutchess Stadium, home of the Hudson Valley Renegades.I was in that minor-league baseball facility a week ago this afternoon hoping to watch Ryan Baty, the former Kansas University standout, play ...

Nearly two weeks after the beaning, Ryan Baty still lapses into fogginess."At times I'll get light-headed," Baty said. "I've had some trouble remembering phone numbers and where I left things in my room."A day after concluding his Kansas University baseball career in late May, Baty signed a ...

Travis Metcalf, holder of Kansas University's home-run records, was selected in the 11th round of Monday's baseball draft.Metcalf, a fourth-year junior third baseman from Wamego, went to the Texas Rangers with the 321st selection.Metcalf hit 18 homers this spring to eclipse Russ Blaylock's ...

Kansas City, Mo. ? Kansas University men's basketball coach Bill Self threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Friday night's Royals-Boston Red Sox game. His catcher? Ex-Jayhawk and current KU staff member Danny Manning."I think he's the tallest catcher who has ever stepped on a major-league ...

Gene Budig, we are told, " ... takes the reader from the bleachers to the dugout to the boardroom for fresh, inside views of the issues and questions which dominate baseball today."If those sound like the words you might find on the dust jacket of a book, you win the prize.Budig, who spent 13 ...